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Websitestudivz.net
CategoryWeb
Phone+49 (0)30 - 280 974 31
Emailvorzimmer@studiVZ...
Employees215
Founded10/05

Offices

[map] Berlin, DEU
Saarbrücker Strasse 38
Berlin, 10405, DEU

People

Founder and CTO
COO
CEO
Head of SchülerVZ

Tags

socialnetwork, germany, berlin, holtzbrinck

StudiVZ

Studivz.net is very similar to Facebook, but primarily focuses on the German speaking market. The company was sold to Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €100 million in January 2007.

Other investors of Studivz include the Samwer brothers, founders of ringtone company Jamba (sold for €270M) and Alando (sold to eBay for €43M in 1999).

As of July 2008, StudiVZ has 9 million active Users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Users are on three Socialnetworks: StudiVZ (4.1M Users) SchülerVZ (4.9M Users) and MeinVZ (1.8M Users)

Milestones

  • 7/18/08 — Sued by Facebook for intellectual property infringement and accused of accused of running a “knock-off” of the social networking website.
  • 2/28/08 — Start of MeinVZ
  • 2/21/07 — StudiVZ started SchülerVZ, a Socialnetwork for Highschool Students.
  • 1/3/07 — Acquired by investor Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €100 million

Products

MeinVZ

Websitemeinvz.net

SchülerVZ

Websiteschuelervz.net
StageLive
Launch DateFebruary 28, 2007

SchülerVZ is a Socialnetwork for German Highschool students with 5 Million active users (56% of all German Highschool students have a Profile)

StudiVZ

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  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. mehrblog.net (mehrblog.net) [edit]
  3. studiVZ (static.pe.schuelervz.net) [edit]
  4. techcrunch.com [edit]
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